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Title: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Latrobe on August 09, 2009, 01:57:37 AM
You can't even come close to mine!!!  :D

(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/Latrobe_2006/best.jpg)

 :rock
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: trax1 on August 09, 2009, 02:51:27 AM
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r168/trax28/deasktop.jpg)
Woot, Go Cubs
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: OOZ662 on August 09, 2009, 04:48:51 AM
I don't bother posting my background since I only have two columns empty of icons.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: jdbecks on August 09, 2009, 05:20:43 AM
Never been a fan of Iron Maiden, Although that deos look good :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Ghosth on August 09, 2009, 07:12:22 AM
(http://www.catfish1.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1661&pictureid=14846)

Just got this one Wed, Little Falls Minnesota Area, Blanchard Hydro Dam on the Mississippi.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: eagl on August 09, 2009, 08:17:16 AM
Here's my desktop.

(http://www.mindspring.com/~seanlong/images/T37 Keys.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Rollins on August 09, 2009, 08:30:49 AM
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r168/trax28/deasktop.jpg)
Woot, Go Cubs


UBER - BARF


Go Sox
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: RTHolmes on August 09, 2009, 08:51:05 AM
I havent seen it but I'm guessing JB88 has the best desktop :D
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: DaveJ on August 09, 2009, 09:19:52 AM
(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/greenland_08_07/g30_19613629.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: shppr01 on August 09, 2009, 09:41:19 AM
I beleive I like daves better Sorry ! :rock
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Saxman on August 09, 2009, 09:45:39 AM
(http://saxman.xwlegacy.net/images/Screen.png)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: eagl on August 09, 2009, 09:53:36 AM
If you're gonna do fantasy wallpapers, you're just dabbling in amature-ville if you're not looking at Boris Vallejo.

I won't post any pics out of respect to the forum rules (hi skuzzy!) but here is a work-safe link if you're not familiar.  A google search will fill in the blanks :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Vallejo

Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: uptown on August 09, 2009, 10:40:23 AM
(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk121/TheAmish/abstract_0029.jpg)I'm using this one right now.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Saxman on August 09, 2009, 11:51:49 AM
If you're gonna do fantasy wallpapers, you're just dabbling in amature-ville if you're not looking at Boris Vallejo.

I won't post any pics out of respect to the forum rules (hi skuzzy!) but here is a work-safe link if you're not familiar.  A google search will fill in the blanks :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Vallejo



Bite me, eagl.

Actually, I prefer Luis Royo, however I'm having difficulty finding anything to fit my screen resolution. By ANYONE.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: usvi on August 09, 2009, 12:19:12 PM
My view from work. :D
(http://www.tobasai.com/wallpaper/page8/St.%20Croix,%20US%20Virgin%20Islands.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: sandwich on August 09, 2009, 12:19:59 PM
(http://jeskanola.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/monorail-cat.jpg)
i generally use different internet gifs and posters every month
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ccvkYt3kemw/SPEXqD-RVCI/AAAAAAAAAOM/72IofHrAz64/s400/REAGAN+smash.gif)
last month was reagan smash month
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: eagl on August 09, 2009, 03:35:20 PM
Bite me, eagl.

 :devil
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Latrobe on August 09, 2009, 05:06:06 PM
Mwahahaha! Look at all these puny Backgrounds! Iron Maiden beats all  :P
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Dux on August 09, 2009, 05:33:52 PM
(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk121/TheAmish/abstract_0029.jpg)I'm using this one right now.

Nice effect, but really a poor model. :(
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Fender16 on August 09, 2009, 05:37:59 PM
Mwahahaha! Look at all these puny Backgrounds! Iron Maiden beats all  :P

Iron Maiden sucks... :noid
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Motherland on August 09, 2009, 06:34:14 PM
You can't even come close to mine!!!  :D

(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/Latrobe_2006/best.jpg)

 :rock
Way to pick like the worst song on the album.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: opposum on August 09, 2009, 07:21:48 PM


heres mine,    its me shooting an AK-74 at the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade show 2009.  (O.F.A.S.T.s. 2009)

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn279/opposum_01/q356.jpg?t=1249863494)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Anodizer on August 09, 2009, 07:33:07 PM
(http://beinart.org/artists/hr-giger/gallery/hr-giger-7.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Mar on August 09, 2009, 07:59:47 PM
(http://beinart.org/artists/hr-giger/gallery/hr-giger-7.jpg)

What the hell is that(are those) thing(s)?


Me, I've always liked this one:

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4188/10938d.jpg)

Unfortunately I forget which one of you fellers made it.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: USRanger on August 09, 2009, 08:05:05 PM
It's an H.R. Giger work.  Ever seen Aliens(the movie)?  If you have, then the creature in the center should look familiar.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: RipChord929 on August 09, 2009, 08:12:31 PM
I change mine periodically, but since I'm into WWII IJN Ships right now, thats what I have on.. Looks great on a 47inch HD Monitor..
Kinda cool how it shows the Bowed flight deck.. Planes Landed uphill, and tookoff downhill.. Don't think anyone else did that on their carriers...
(http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv226/RipChord929/AkagiLarge.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Motherland on August 09, 2009, 08:13:34 PM
Bit small but it was the best I could find... it had to be stretched a bit to fit :(
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/AK_Comrade/DESKTOP7-24-09.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Soulyss on August 09, 2009, 09:26:13 PM
Just recently switched to this one
(http://www.aircraftinformation.info/Images/P-39_01.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Anodizer on August 09, 2009, 09:47:31 PM
It's an H.R. Giger work.  Ever seen Aliens(the movie)?  If you have, then the creature in the center should look familiar.

 :aok :rock
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: CavPuke on August 09, 2009, 09:53:00 PM
(http://h1.ripway.com/warpig41/pics/SlickoverGatun.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: weazely on August 09, 2009, 10:30:00 PM
What the hell is that(are those) thing(s)?


Me, I've always liked this one:

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4188/10938d.jpg)

Unfortunately I forget which one of you fellers made it.

<--- Thanks for using it as a wallpaper!
 :aok

Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on August 09, 2009, 11:19:09 PM
I have quite a few I switch around . ..last few weeks its been my 3dmax stuff.

Some awesome vette photo's now an then .. I have quite a few of those from here an there an everywhere.

-GE (heck even got a nice photo of a 32 Ford 3-window Coupe in Robins Egg Blue, purty.. lotsa chrome)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Enker on August 09, 2009, 11:41:53 PM
Map of the internet. I had no idea the internet was so beautiful until I found the Opte project. I thought it would be darker, and full of trolls and LOLcats.
(http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/blyon/opte/maps/static/1105841711.LGL.2D.1024x1024.png)


Super High definition link, where you can discern all the domain names (is that the right word?), though it just doesn't look as nice.

.net, .ca, and .us are dark blue, .com, and .org are green, .mil, .gov, and .edu are red,
.jp, .cn, .tw, and .au are yellow, .de, .uk, .it, .pl, and .fr are magenta, .br, .kr, and .nl are light blue, and unknown is white.

It looks almost like stars, and is the only wallpaper my folks and I can agree on.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Saxman on August 09, 2009, 11:44:38 PM
Map of the internet. I had no idea the internet was so beautiful until I found the Opte project. I thought it would be darker, and full of trolls and LOLcats.
(http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/blyon/opte/maps/static/1105841711.LGL.2D.1024x1024.png)


Super High definition link, where you can discern all the domain names (is that the right word?), though it just doesn't look as nice.

.net, .ca, and .us are dark blue, .com, and .org are green, .mil, .gov, and .edu are red,
.jp, .cn, .tw, and .au are yellow, .de, .uk, .it, .pl, and .fr are magenta, .br, .kr, and .nl are light blue, and unknown is white.

It looks almost like stars, and is the only wallpaper my folks and I can agree on.

Looks like someone had been playing with a Spirograph.

:D
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Masherbrum on August 10, 2009, 12:13:39 AM
(http://beinart.org/artists/hr-giger/gallery/hr-giger-7.jpg)

H.R. Giger is a favorite of mine, awesome choice Ano.   I also like Frazetta (always have been a fan of Death Dealer) and Vallejo.



My current wallpaper is:  I only have the Recycle Bin on the Desktop, I'm weird like that.

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/Desktop.jpg)

Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Enker on August 10, 2009, 12:32:29 AM
H.R. Giger is a favorite of mine, awesome choice Ano.   I also like Frazetta (always have been a fan of Death Dealer) and Vallejo.



My current wallpaper is:  I only have the Recycle Bin on the Desktop, I'm weird like that.

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/Desktop.jpg)


Where are the blenders?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: jdbecks on August 10, 2009, 02:54:40 AM
Bit small but it was the best I could find... it had to be stretched a bit to fit :(
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/AK_Comrade/DESKTOP7-24-09.jpg)

Looks good the photo  :aok and what operatering system is that?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: JunkyII on August 10, 2009, 03:06:20 AM
I use Bmathis's "Wild Blue Yonder" picture witht eh 3 mustangs :salute
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: jdbecks on August 10, 2009, 03:40:45 AM
Some great hi ress wallpapers of planes here

http://www.milavia.net/downloads/wallpapers.php?page=1&resolution=all&sort=popularity&results=12


anyone got any other good links?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: OOZ662 on August 10, 2009, 04:18:40 AM
and what operatering system is that?

Vista. Or one of the mods to XP that implements Vista's Look and Feel. Though I sincerely hope nobody's been bored enough to do that around here. :D
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Mar on August 10, 2009, 10:27:21 AM
Vista. Or one of the mods to XP that implements Vista's Look and Feel. Though I sincerely hope nobody's been bored enough to do that around here. :D

 :noid
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Dragon on August 10, 2009, 10:34:49 AM
My current view at work:

(http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo82/bzavasnik/Desktop.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Treize69 on August 10, 2009, 11:12:38 AM
This pic, stretched to fill the screen of course.

(http://www.blackfive.net/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/19/charge_hires_081212a0000t001a.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: 1701E on August 10, 2009, 11:44:17 AM
I rarely look at my Desktop:

(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/Xcelsior1701/Desktop.jpg?t=1249922451)
Resized to fit on here, original is 1680x1050.

Don't use Photobucket often, not sure if I got the image right, dang thing doesn't allow me to post Pics like MediaFire.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Latrobe on August 10, 2009, 02:55:39 PM
H.R. Giger is a favorite of mine, awesome choice Ano.   I also like Frazetta (always have been a fan of Death Dealer) and Vallejo.



My current wallpaper is:  I only have the Recycle Bin on the Desktop, I'm weird like that.

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/Desktop.jpg)



Ok, that one is actually very pretty! P-38's just have a look all of their own.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Motherland on August 10, 2009, 03:11:57 PM
Vista. Or one of the mods to XP that implements Vista's Look and Feel. Though I sincerely hope nobody's been bored enough to do that around here. :D
No, vista doesn't look like that, it still has the standard task bar. It's the Windows 7 RC.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on August 10, 2009, 03:45:53 PM
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/spikesx/background.jpg)
1080p on a 15" monitor! :rock
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: weazely on August 10, 2009, 03:52:24 PM
All of those adobe programs make me very very jealous. :cry :cry
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Denholm on August 10, 2009, 04:02:12 PM
(http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/227/desktopgii.jpg)

 :D
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: RTHolmes on August 10, 2009, 04:25:28 PM

 ^
:rofl
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: james on August 10, 2009, 05:09:59 PM
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h113/rcmtdriver/glamorousgal.jpg)

Still using this one
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: zoozoo on August 10, 2009, 05:55:15 PM
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii275/zoozoo13/desktop.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: OOZ662 on August 10, 2009, 05:56:54 PM
Two AIMs and two iTunes, just in case. :D
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on August 10, 2009, 05:58:49 PM
You need some more processes running.
 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: OOZ662 on August 10, 2009, 05:59:59 PM
That was my second thought. I'm amazed that poor thing will run games.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Motherland on August 10, 2009, 06:00:29 PM
Two AIMs and two iTunes, just in case. :D
Not to mention two shortcuts to IE, Chrome AND Safari. He has 3 iTunes shortcuts, not two, if you look carefully.
Zoozoo I think we've found why your computer is having trouble with AH...
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Saxman on August 10, 2009, 06:06:47 PM
He's probably got the toolbars all those things want you to install too.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: AirFlyer on August 10, 2009, 06:19:47 PM
(http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu148/Spinnich/Wallpaper.jpg?t=1249946325)

And yes, that's Windows XP Pro. 32-bit.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on August 10, 2009, 06:46:06 PM
It's not hard to make XP look like Vista :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: zoozoo on August 10, 2009, 06:59:09 PM
idk my bff jill?
i have two of everything just incase the power goes out   :D
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: AirFlyer on August 10, 2009, 07:11:33 PM
It's not hard to make XP look like Vista :aok

Nope, but if any of the other tech-guys caught me with Vista I'd never hear the end of it. :noid
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: OOZ662 on August 10, 2009, 07:13:42 PM
*slowly sets down the beating stick*

:noid
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on August 10, 2009, 07:41:42 PM
Nope, but if any of the other tech-guys caught me with Vista I'd never hear the end of it. :noid
Very true lol...I've got vista on my new laptop, it works but I'll be glad to get W7.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: dBeav on August 10, 2009, 10:06:10 PM
As of right now it looks like this
(http://turma.net/Screenshot.png)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: 1sum41 on August 10, 2009, 10:37:30 PM
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/1sum41/025.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: vorticon on August 10, 2009, 11:08:48 PM
(http://i32.tinypic.com/ra2c5k.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: mike254 on August 11, 2009, 12:40:44 AM
(http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv197/RedRaider43/Untitled-1.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: weazely on August 11, 2009, 12:58:02 AM
Gotta love stupid wallpapers. Once again thank you spikes!!! :P

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x247/RaBBiDxSquiRRel/desktopx.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Enker on August 11, 2009, 12:59:31 AM
Gotta love stupid wallpapers. Once again thank you spikes!!! :P

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x247/RaBBiDxSquiRRel/desktopx.jpg)

lol wut?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: weazely on August 11, 2009, 01:01:31 AM
Never scene an ice cream man push a walrus out of the way? :D
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on August 11, 2009, 01:06:07 AM
Gotta love stupid wallpapers. Once again thank you spikes!!! :P

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x247/RaBBiDxSquiRRel/desktopx.jpg)

Lol once again no problem. :)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Enker on August 11, 2009, 01:07:32 AM
Never scene an ice cream man push a walrus out of the way? :D
I've seen a walrus push an ice cream man out of the way, but not a ice cream man push a walrus.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TwinTail on August 11, 2009, 01:07:51 AM
Saxman posted a couple pics of F4U's on the BBS in another thread sooooo....

(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6885/desktop1s.png) (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/desktop1s.png/)


Also 1 of a Few Pics of Me-109 Artwork I found on the Net 1 day.

(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4133/desktop2c.png) (http://img267.imageshack.us/i/desktop2c.png/)

Sorry for the squishiness - 1280x 1024 resolution no come out so good.

TT
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Hoarach on August 11, 2009, 01:24:39 AM
Mike how do you have icons setup like that?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Qrsu on August 11, 2009, 02:26:03 AM
:noid

Mar! Where have ya been man? *Reads sigline*  :(
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: OOZ662 on August 11, 2009, 02:35:35 AM
Argh, you got me reading signatures and Latrobe's got that song stuck in my head...boo.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: texastc316 on August 11, 2009, 02:37:57 AM
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm155/jasonthehunted/sucks.jpg)

GAME OVER
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Latrobe on August 11, 2009, 02:41:33 AM
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm155/jasonthehunted/sucks.jpg)

GAME OVER

I started cracking up when I read the shirt!  :rofl
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: 5PointOh on August 11, 2009, 10:39:39 AM
Rita Hayworth


(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z235/nathanyoung1980/Untitled-2.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on August 11, 2009, 11:03:00 AM
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/concepts/FPW_hiboy_roadster_leftf.jpg)

Concept inw atm .. I post it up as my wallpaper so I can nitpick it as I go :)

Still a lot to do on it, but proportions are lookin good and makin the headers was *fun* !! .. created lines with smooth vertexes, typed in diameter of 1.75" (cause that's a good header diameter for a 426 Hemi :) ..turned on visible in viewport ..when they were all laid out and clear of everything, and into the 4" collector, 'create mesh' .. bingo! .. Headers :)

-GE aka Frank
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TwinTail on August 11, 2009, 01:57:16 PM
Pics for the F4U's and other found here:

http://www.warbirddepot.com/photo_fighters.asp

TT
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: whels on August 11, 2009, 02:27:59 PM
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2919502327_177ffc8fd7_b.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 11, 2009, 02:30:11 PM
The most beautiful aircraft on earth.

(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/A-6EVA75USSJFKCV67landing.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Babalonian on August 11, 2009, 07:14:28 PM
<- Hornet nut, I've gone through few in the past month or so:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/F-18.jpg)

(http://www.defenselink.mil/dodcmsshare/homepagephoto%5C2007-04%5Chires_070412-N-8591-066.jpg)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_DERHUFrys4g/Sfijf5MFm8I/AAAAAAAAIag/8JZAPVYC-vI/f18.takeoff2.jpg)

The two I've used in the past week I can't seme to find at work right now, I'll dig more later.

Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Banshee7 on August 11, 2009, 10:27:54 PM
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2919502327_177ffc8fd7_b.jpg)

That's the one I've been using until about 5 minutes ago.  Still got Corsairs though  :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: SkyRock on August 11, 2009, 10:33:15 PM
Rita Hayworth


(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z235/nathanyoung1980/Untitled-2.jpg)
<drools> :rock
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Bodhi on August 11, 2009, 10:46:51 PM
Nice -4's Whels.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: COndor06 on August 12, 2009, 12:09:07 AM
(http://m.b5z.net/i/u/6137676/i/HA_Corsair_BEst_ezr.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Marshal on August 12, 2009, 01:35:44 AM
The most beautiful aircraft on earth.

(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/A-6EVA75USSJFKCV67landing.jpg)

Hey Nef,
      I don't know if it is the most beautiful aircraft on earth, but she sure got the job done!
507 was a much better bird than 502 while I was in the Sunday Punchers.
Only because of my name on the side.....  :lol
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: jdbecks on August 12, 2009, 05:04:02 AM
Saxman posted a couple pics of F4U's on the BBS in another thread sooooo....

(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6885/desktop1s.png) (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/desktop1s.png/)


Also 1 of a Few Pics of Me-109 Artwork I found on the Net 1 day.

(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4133/desktop2c.png) (http://img267.imageshack.us/i/desktop2c.png/)

Sorry for the squishiness - 1280x 1024 resolution no come out so good.

where did you get the 109 painting from?

cheers

Jon

TT
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: cpxxx on August 12, 2009, 06:46:19 AM
(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii194/nolh/wingover.jpg)

This is on my desktop. I didn't take the pic or do the skydive but I'm flying the aeroplane.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 12, 2009, 07:18:59 AM
Hey Nef,
      I don't know if it is the most beautiful aircraft on earth, but she sure got the job done!
507 was a much better bird than 502 while I was in the Sunday Punchers.
Only because of my name on the side.....  :lol

Cool. Pilot? B/N?

My dad served 20 years, Enlisted in 71. He Served with VA-65, VA-34 & VA-85 also VS-33. He was in Aviation Maintenance. Retired as a Lt in 1991.

Every where I lived, Intruders flew overhead. (not to mention everything else in the Navy Inventory during the 80's)... VA Beach x2, Pensacola, San Diego.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I have plenty of High Quality pictures of A-6s and F-4s that are great for Desktops, But if you're like my dad, your probably tired of looking at them :)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Wraith_TMS on August 12, 2009, 07:05:15 PM
Here's mine.  This is one of the screenies I entered in HTC's 2009 screenshot contest:

(http://www.musketeers.org/wordpress/wp-content/galleryah2009screenshotcontest/wraithe_ss35_ps_reduc.jpg)
...
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Stalwart on August 12, 2009, 09:27:12 PM
Pics for the F4U's and other found here:

http://www.warbirddepot.com/photo_fighters.asp

TT

Thanks!~  :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: 1pLUs44 on August 12, 2009, 09:29:02 PM
Picture of my dog.  :aok

Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Denholm on August 12, 2009, 10:06:45 PM
(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii194/nolh/wingover.jpg)

This is on my desktop. I didn't take the pic or do the skydive but I'm flying the aeroplane.
"Stop looking where the sun don't shine! Wait..."
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Slash27 on August 13, 2009, 01:42:36 AM
(http://www.garagebay9.com/work%20samples/3D/PacFi/tigers.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Reaper90 on August 13, 2009, 07:40:59 AM
(http://www.garagebay9.com/work%20samples/3D/PacFi/tigers.jpg)

Dang Slash, you beat me to it... that's my wallpaper also, found it at p40warhawk.com a few weeks back. I've always thought the P40B is one of the most gorgeous of all birds....
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 13, 2009, 09:14:53 AM
Here's another one of mine, I'll post them as I rotate them.  :cool:

(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/A-6EUSNCV41USSMidway.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: zoozoo on August 13, 2009, 09:32:05 AM
on my new laptop :)
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii275/zoozoo13/Untitled-5.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nemisis on August 13, 2009, 12:53:58 PM
Latrobe, nice wall paper. I see you have Red Orchestra :rock. Just for that your wall paper gets and A+!!!!
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Guppy35 on August 13, 2009, 04:43:21 PM
I have an interest in the clipper bow US Battleships that were produced between WW1 and WW2.  My desktop at the moment is this shot of the USS California in heavy seas in 1945.  From the wartime cruise book of the California.

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/California-1.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: cpxxx on August 14, 2009, 07:39:25 AM
"Stop looking where the sun don't shine! Wait..."
Well James the tandem instructor does think the sun shines out of.......................Here's proof. :D
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Bosco123 on August 14, 2009, 08:55:53 AM
My one and only:

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/109D-9.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on August 14, 2009, 04:05:20 PM
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/FPW_hiboy_roadster_leftf_withtop.jpg)

mine atm .. just finished the front suspension :)

-GE aka Frank
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nemisis on August 15, 2009, 12:27:09 AM
Yes I do think my wallpaper is cool. Here, check it out:(http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=wallpaper_soldier1280yd6e.jpg)

Sorry guys, picture didn't show. Go to www.darkesthourgame.com and it is the 1'st picture I think. Or the one with the soldier carrying his rifle through a field of wheat or something.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TheAce on August 15, 2009, 08:39:54 PM
Here's mine,  :aok!
(http://www.motifake.com/demotivational-poster/0809/war-war-military-demotivational-poster-1222568923.jpg)

Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: betty on August 15, 2009, 11:13:49 PM
i want to post mine but...i cant remember how to take a screen shot without bustin out the digital camera :(
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Lusche on August 15, 2009, 11:15:35 PM
i want to post mine but...i cant remember how to take a screen shot without bustin out the digital camera :(

hit PrntScrn key
open picture editor of your choice
ctrl-v to insert

save picture
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Yenny on August 15, 2009, 11:20:29 PM
My one and only:

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/109D-9.jpg)

Yep that has been my fav wall paper the longest time
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: betty on August 15, 2009, 11:28:56 PM
hit PrntScrn key
open picture editor of your choice
ctrl-v to insert

save picture


lol after reading your directions i was like "duhhhhhhhhh" hehe...im sleepy :)


ty for ur help :)
my desktop pic is the coolest eva!!!

(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/87/l_f02332fb35d54585baa81bcd0f78ff56.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: 1701E on August 16, 2009, 05:54:47 PM
Cute pup, Betty. :)



Had to re-format, so got a new one:

(http://www.carpixarchive.com/screensaver/hires/camarorsss_l.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on August 16, 2009, 11:43:02 PM
I'm hoping to fly F-15Es, so heres my crack right now:

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc74/Serene_One/Untitled-8.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: DrDea on August 17, 2009, 12:18:37 AM
Saxman posted a couple pics of F4U's on the BBS in another thread sooooo....

(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6885/desktop1s.png) (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/desktop1s.png/)


Also 1 of a Few Pics of Me-109 Artwork I found on the Net 1 day.

(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4133/desktop2c.png) (http://img267.imageshack.us/i/desktop2c.png/)

Sorry for the squishiness - 1280x 1024 resolution no come out so good.

TT
Oh Oh I want the 109's :)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: DrDea on August 17, 2009, 12:20:35 AM
(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p128/Kevorkian_2007/untitled-1.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Gixer on August 17, 2009, 07:02:45 AM
(http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/photos/2008models/2008-KTM-990Adventurea.jpg)


<S>...-Gixer
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Treize69 on August 17, 2009, 11:57:15 AM
(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p128/Kevorkian_2007/untitled-1.jpg)

And Gemma for the win! Used to have that one on mine own desktop.  :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 17, 2009, 01:16:13 PM
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/A-6EVA35CVN69USSNimitz.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on August 17, 2009, 04:18:39 PM
Todays Desktop :)

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/misc/FPW_desktop.jpg)

-GE
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TheAce on August 17, 2009, 04:20:59 PM
(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p128/Kevorkian_2007/untitled-1.jpg)

 :O

Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nemisis on August 17, 2009, 04:42:52 PM
:O


:lol
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TwinTail on August 17, 2009, 05:17:25 PM
too much graphic material for such a young kid, i dont think he could handle it.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Shuffler on August 17, 2009, 05:32:04 PM
I change mine every few days...

This is a pic I took a couple of weeks back on the river walk in San Antonio.

(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q96/Shuff_photos/DT_San_Antonio.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: LLogann on August 17, 2009, 05:33:51 PM
Gosh I am boring.... All of my screens are BLUE.... Classic, generic BLUE

Oh dear.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TheAce on August 17, 2009, 06:06:29 PM
too much graphic material for such a young kid, i dont think he could handle it.
:rofl   :rofl   :rofl   :rofl
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: ghi on August 17, 2009, 06:12:00 PM
Moraine Lake ,Alberta

(http://free-hq-wallpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Moraine-Lake-2560x1600.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on August 17, 2009, 06:18:25 PM
I change mine every few days...

This is a pic I took a couple of weeks back on the river walk in San Antonio.

(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q96/Shuff_photos/DT_San_Antonio.jpg)

I've been to the Riverwalk twice and never seen that part of it. Where is that?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Birddogg on August 17, 2009, 09:35:06 PM
(http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/photos/2008models/2008-KTM-990Adventurea.jpg)


<S>...-Gixer


KTM Adventure RULES!
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on August 18, 2009, 12:46:07 AM
My laptop:
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/spikesx/Computer/Mycomp.jpg)

Other laptop (new):
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/spikesx/Computer/newerlap.jpg)

My old laptop:
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/spikesx/Computer/Oldlaptop.png)

Gaming desktop:
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/spikesx/Computer/gamingcomp.jpg)

Utility desktop:
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/spikesx/Computer/otherDT.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 18, 2009, 08:54:06 AM
Time to switch it up... Phantoms Phorever!

(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/F-4_Phantom_II_VF-21.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Gixer on August 18, 2009, 09:02:21 AM
KTM Adventure RULES!

You have good taste. Here's mine while touring Tasmania earlier this year.   :D

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL1132/3985165/18938532/372195861.jpg)


<S>...-Gixer
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on August 18, 2009, 02:08:44 PM
Nice airplane pix :)

Spikes: Your utility desktop sky near dusk .. needs a silhoutte of a P-51 runnin for home after a long day over Germany :)

-GE
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: betty on August 18, 2009, 03:32:43 PM
Time to switch it up... Phantoms Phorever!

(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/F-4_Phantom_II_VF-21.jpg)

dont listen to this nef guy! hes a penguins fan ;)


Moraine Lake ,Alberta

(http://free-hq-wallpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Moraine-Lake-2560x1600.jpg)


ghi that pic is awsome!!! would make a great puzzle ;)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: mechanic on August 18, 2009, 03:55:41 PM
I so win this game!

(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/desktop.PNG)

native res is 1920x1080 :D
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Jayhawk on August 18, 2009, 04:02:36 PM
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/Jayhawk1/100_1720.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on August 18, 2009, 08:29:06 PM
Nice airplane pix :)

Spikes: Your utility desktop sky near dusk .. needs a silhoutte of a P-51 runnin for home after a long day over Germany :)

-GE
Took that pic on my boat a couple weeks ago, I could :) Actualy it's a cell phone pic


mechanic - I have 1080p too :)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: weazely on August 18, 2009, 10:03:59 PM
I so win this game!

(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/desktop.PNG)

native res is 1920x1080 :D


I love my 1980x1080 best thing ever!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Masherbrum on August 18, 2009, 11:15:09 PM
Switched to 64 Bit Vista ultimate today and love it.

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Desktop.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: druski85 on August 18, 2009, 11:26:18 PM
You can keep your planes.  I prefer my lift to be generated in a different vector entirely, and to be flying in a much different way :) 

(http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo232/wheand85/beasting-1.jpg)

Myself (white sails) and my two friends.  Pardon the crappy camera. 
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: mechanic on August 19, 2009, 05:19:09 AM
thats it weazley thanks, i always forget the numbers.  :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 19, 2009, 01:00:16 PM
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/A-6EVA-35USSSaratogaCV60.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on August 19, 2009, 03:06:00 PM
Todays desktop :)

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/FPW_hiboy_frontsusp_coils_rt_ft.jpg)
A bit of engine detail on a beautiful top-down day to fly.

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/FPW_hiboy_frontsusp_coils_rt_side.jpg)
Side view ..makes me wanna fire 'em up and go for a lil spin :)

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/FPW_hiboy_frontsusp_coils.jpg)
Front suspension done w/coil-overs ..had to move headlights up and back a little, thinkin it needs a bumper cause the front looks kinda bare now compared to the old school txverse leaf-dropped axle.

-GE aka Frank
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Marshal on August 20, 2009, 05:00:27 AM
Cool. Pilot? B/N?

Hey Nef sorry it took so long to get back to you.
To answer your question...none of the above. I unfortunately had to WORK for a living.....  :)
I was a Plane Captain on my first cruise.
Sorry about quality of pictures. They were scanned in and about 20 years old.

(http://i437.photobucket.com/albums/qq95/XOMarshal/A6Intruder2.jpg)

(http://i437.photobucket.com/albums/qq95/XOMarshal/A6Intruder-1.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: mtn-paradoc on August 20, 2009, 11:46:59 AM
this is what i see...ill figure out how to put my desktop on later!lol!

http://home.windstream.net/hensons/VF17/Images/title5.jpg
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: fudgums on August 20, 2009, 11:49:38 AM
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h83/ezpl/Jerry_Crandall_02_Adolf_Galland-1.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: weazely on August 20, 2009, 09:27:58 PM
This is after a recent update that I give all credit to Spikes for!  Thanks man looks great :aok
1920x1080 = fun!

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x247/RaBBiDxSquiRRel/version2.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: gyrene81 on August 20, 2009, 09:39:40 PM
How's this?

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/405468/AH%20Stuff/avp%20chess.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: USRanger on August 20, 2009, 09:58:44 PM
That is badazz!! :O
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TwinEng on August 21, 2009, 09:07:07 AM
__

I've got a real warbird:


(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3529/3842028569_c9f1ee6dca_o.jpg)


__
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 21, 2009, 09:59:05 AM
Hey Nef sorry it took so long to get back to you.
To answer your question...none of the above. I unfortunately had to WORK for a living.....  :)
I was a Plane Captain on my first cruise.
Sorry about quality of pictures. They were scanned in and about 20 years old.

(http://i437.photobucket.com/albums/qq95/XOMarshal/A6Intruder2.jpg)

(http://i437.photobucket.com/albums/qq95/XOMarshal/A6Intruder-1.jpg)

Nice Pics, 20 years old eh? My dad was with VA-85 about that time. He was on the USS America in the Red Sea. Did you guys lose any A-6's during GW1? VA-85 lost one to a carrier Mishap. My dad has the flight deck Video.

Here's another Phantom Desktop.

(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/vf84f4bcatusn.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: WWhiskey on August 21, 2009, 10:27:04 AM
one i made


(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/3430353102_fca0e54ab0.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Denholm on August 21, 2009, 10:28:20 AM
A WWII bomber at Warp 8? :huh



Gimmie!
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Dragon on August 21, 2009, 01:05:51 PM
Fixed


(http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo82/bzavasnik/EagleSqueek.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on August 21, 2009, 01:15:47 PM
__

I've got a real warbird:


(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3529/3842028569_c9f1ee6dca_o.jpg)


__
You have no icons on the right side of the image...I'm ashamed of you!
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Motherland on August 21, 2009, 02:12:43 PM
This is after a recent update that I give all credit to Spikes for!  Thanks man looks great :aok
1920x1080 = fun!

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x247/RaBBiDxSquiRRel/version2.jpg)
Windows 7 wannabe :P :D


New wallpaper
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/AK_Comrade/DESKTOP8-21-09.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: upstage on August 21, 2009, 03:31:13 PM
heres mine 
(http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp316/rmachaos/screenshot.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on August 21, 2009, 03:34:07 PM
Well, I have resigned myself to the fact that, despite my allergy, I will end up flying blue-birds for the rest of my life and now need to get used to seeing them. So, heres my new wallpaper. Took the picture myself at Honolulu International Airport. With Hickam AFB ATTACHED to HNL, and Kaneohe Bay MCAB only a few dozen miles away, what a pair of F/A-18Fs were doing parked in GENERAL AVIATION I don't know, lol, but I told HNL Ground I wanted to pull over for a minute, when I taxied past them, to snap this pic:


(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc74/Serene_One/Untitled-9.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: maddafinga on August 21, 2009, 03:38:14 PM
__

I've got a real warbird:




__

Hey, where did you get that pic?  I'd love to have a copy of it to draw.  Can you point me to it maybe?

Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Babalonian on August 21, 2009, 06:51:50 PM
Serenity, these are my three favorite F-15 wallpapers:
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F15-1.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F15-3.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F15-5.jpg)
^ my favorite F-15 wallpaper

Others out of my F-18 wallpaper collection here at home:
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-F2.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-F5.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-13.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-6.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-11.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-9.jpg)
^ my favorite F-18 wallpaper
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-10.jpg)
^ current wallpaper
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on August 21, 2009, 07:12:41 PM
Serenity, these are my three favorite F-15 wallpapers:
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F15-1.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F15-3.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F15-5.jpg)
^ my favorite F-15 wallpaper

Others out of my F-18 wallpaper collection here at home:
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-F2.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-F5.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-13.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-6.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-11.jpg)
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-9.jpg)
^ my favorite F-18 wallpaper
(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv115/Babalon84/F-18-10.jpg)
^ current wallpaper


Eagle was always my favorite modern fighter. Unfortunately, I have finally accepted the fact that I will never fly one :(
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Lusche on August 21, 2009, 07:32:37 PM
My current one:

(http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5729/clipboard01r.jpg)

 :)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: eagl on August 21, 2009, 07:42:03 PM
Eagle was always my favorite modern fighter. Unfortunately, I have finally accepted the fact that I will never fly one :(

How come?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on August 21, 2009, 08:10:05 PM
How come?

USAF has zero interest in me. I'm still a candidate at the Academy, but I know I just don't have the credentials for that kind of thing. AFROTC is, well, rather cold to deal with and the local USAF recruiters are completely uninterested in ANYONE. In fact, they're almost at the point of just turning folks away at the door. I just get the feeling the USAF won't be accepting me as an officer. The United States Navy however is tripping over it's collective self to get hold of me. I get at least 3 phone calls a week, one from NROTC checking in on me, my application, etc., and offering advice; One from Nuclear somethingorother wanting me to become a Nuclear Engineer, and a wild-card call from one of various USN Recruiting commands trying to sell me on the Navy. I'm also holding candidacy at Anapolis, and made it through Summer Seminar there, but I know Im just not what they're looking for either. I would LOVE to fly for the Air Force. Without a doubt they are my first choice. It just doesn't seem to be coming together.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Jayhawk on August 21, 2009, 08:29:37 PM
My current one:

(http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5729/clipboard01r.jpg)

 :)

The porno folder on hello kitty's book. haha wow, nice.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: ink on August 21, 2009, 08:48:59 PM

(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/lunapic-124904893055521.gif)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: cactuskooler on August 21, 2009, 08:50:20 PM
Here's a neat one I used to use.

Two F-15s intercepting two Mig-29s en route to an airshow in Canada.
(http://www.harvsair.com/photos/data/media/13/gpw-200701a-UnitedStatesAirForce-DFST9005759-vigilance-USAF-F-15-fighter-jets-intercept-two-USSR-MiG-29-aircraft-medium.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: eagl on August 21, 2009, 08:59:55 PM
It was the opposite for me...USN didn't seem to care but USAF spent the time.

Still, nobody will do it for you, and any recruiting apathy might just be local.  Do the work with the applications and see.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on August 21, 2009, 09:04:32 PM
It was the opposite for me...USN didn't seem to care but USAF spent the time.

Still, nobody will do it for you, and any recruiting apathy might just be local.  Do the work with the applications and see.

Oh yeah, I'm a candidate at both Academies, and both ROTC programs. Funny thing for me is realizing how hard-core pro-USAF I've always been, my years in CAP, etc... and now its the Navy who wants me, lol.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 22, 2009, 09:50:12 AM
Look at all those Famous "Former" Fighter Squadrons flying the Superbug. Makes me kind of nauseous. :(
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: SIM on August 22, 2009, 06:10:51 PM
My gamer desktop

(http://www.wingsandbullets.com/My%20pics/American%20Lineman.jpg)

My Laptop desktop:

(http://www.wingsandbullets.com/My%20pics/yhst-42000695909641_2063_127706226.gif)

This is one of my favorites to use....This is my 10 year old son Blake.

(http://www.wingsandbullets.com/My%20pics/Blake2.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TwinEng on August 22, 2009, 08:33:16 PM
Here is the only way that Dragon will ever fly:


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2606/3847275376_774f12b7a4_o.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Jappa52 on August 22, 2009, 11:39:59 PM
Here's a neat one I used to use.

Two F-15s intercepting two Mig-29s en route to an airshow in Canada.
(http://www.harvsair.com/photos/data/media/13/gpw-200701a-UnitedStatesAirForce-DFST9005759-vigilance-USAF-F-15-fighter-jets-intercept-two-USSR-MiG-29-aircraft-medium.jpg)

now this is a cool picture.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: 5PointOh on August 23, 2009, 04:01:30 PM
New Rita background...

(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z235/nathanyoung1980/Untitled-1-3.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: druski85 on August 23, 2009, 06:29:09 PM
New Rita background...

Someone's looking for a new job.  Best of luck!   :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: ghi on August 23, 2009, 08:28:52 PM
Here's a neat one I used to use.

Two F-15s intercepting two Mig-29s en route to an airshow in Canada.
(http://www.harvsair.com/photos/data/media/13/gpw-200701a-UnitedStatesAirForce-DFST9005759-vigilance-USAF-F-15-fighter-jets-intercept-two-USSR-MiG-29-aircraft-medium.jpg)

  Cool foto, interesting story, i just read something about it.
Mig 29s are known for short range,i wonder how many times did they refuel, it's a long way from British Columbia to closest dryland in east of Russia.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 24, 2009, 10:30:40 AM
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/F-4B_VF-14_CVA-67_landingJPEG.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on August 24, 2009, 04:33:50 PM
Yeah, I go through these a lot. This one is MY plane with my AOPA flight bag and our little squid-lure pitot cover :)

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc74/Serene_One/Untitled-10.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Selino631 on August 24, 2009, 06:16:17 PM
(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Fighters/AmericanProps/ThreeP47s.jpg)
(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Fighters/AmericanProps/P51sChino08.jpg)
(http://www.wallpapergate.com/data/media/2183/F_16_Falcon_4.jpg)
(http://ftp.insmod.org/art/wallpaper/insurgency_1280x960.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: moot on August 24, 2009, 06:36:45 PM
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Fighters/AmericanProps/P51sChino08.jpg
/\
Incredible that people can say the P-51 is an ugly aircraft.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Bosco123 on August 24, 2009, 06:59:45 PM
I like Selino's Jugs :)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Babalonian on August 24, 2009, 07:25:29 PM
Eagle was always my favorite modern fighter. Unfortunately, I have finally accepted the fact that I will never fly one :(

Yeah, just saw your above posts too...

Well, I have resigned myself to the fact that, despite my allergy, I will end up flying blue-birds for the rest of my life and now need to get used to seeing them. So, heres my new wallpaper. Took the picture myself at Honolulu International Airport. With Hickam AFB ATTACHED to HNL, and Kaneohe Bay MCAB only a few dozen miles away, what a pair of F/A-18Fs were doing parked in GENERAL AVIATION I don't know, lol, but I told HNL Ground I wanted to pull over for a minute, when I taxied past them, to snap this pic:


(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc74/Serene_One/Untitled-9.jpg)

I haven't got a clue why they're parked there or what they're doing there either, but their plane numbers are 04 and 05 with no other unit markings or other stuff on it I can recognize/make-out... very interesting indeed.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on August 24, 2009, 08:36:47 PM
Yeah, just saw your above posts too...

I haven't got a clue why they're parked there or what they're doing there either, but their plane numbers are 04 and 05 with no other unit markings or other stuff on it I can recognize/make-out... very interesting indeed.

They were only there for a day. Went back with a better camera to get some good shots the next day and they were gone.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on August 27, 2009, 12:56:19 PM
Back when Carrier Air Wings were Carrier Air Wings  :D  ;)

(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/USSMidwayCV41A-7sA-6sF-4sEA-6BsE-2s.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Dragon on August 27, 2009, 01:45:32 PM
Here is the only way that Dragon will ever fly:


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2606/3847275376_774f12b7a4_o.jpg)
:rofl :rofl :rofl  :cry

Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Dragon on August 28, 2009, 02:02:59 PM
Current pic at work, still not sure if I'm going to the concert though.

http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo82/bzavasnik/kissthis.png[/img]](http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo82/bzavasnik/kissthis.png) (http://[IMG)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: AirFlyer on August 28, 2009, 07:29:42 PM
Newest wallpaper...

(http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu148/Spinnich/Background.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: RipChord929 on August 28, 2009, 07:38:16 PM
Just Changed mine again.... This is a REALLY GOOD ONE!!!
I'd love to have some of this action in the game!!!
(http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv226/RipChord929/USSLaffeyvsKirishimapointblank.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Enker on August 28, 2009, 08:05:25 PM
I have no idea where my dad found this, maybe 4chan? But, I sure like it.

(http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo280/Enker_photo/Desktop.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: DaveJ on August 28, 2009, 08:09:51 PM
I have no idea where my dad found this, maybe 4chan? But, I sure like it.

(http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo280/Enker_photo/Desktop.jpg)

You are completely obsessed with food, Enk!
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: AirFlyer on August 28, 2009, 08:34:32 PM
I have no idea where my dad found this, maybe 4chan? But, I sure like it.

(http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo280/Enker_photo/Desktop.jpg)

Go big or don't go at all, I present to you...

(http://www.geekologie.com/2009/03/01/pizza%20burger%201.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grind on August 28, 2009, 08:44:52 PM
(http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv65/a8grind/desktop.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on August 28, 2009, 09:02:06 PM
Yeah, just saw your above posts too...

I haven't got a clue why they're parked there or what they're doing there either, but their plane numbers are 04 and 05 with no other unit markings or other stuff on it I can recognize/make-out... very interesting indeed.

Military aircrafts parked on GA aviations ramps is nothing extraordinary. I witness that weekly. Those guys relocate/transit/divert.

Back on the subject, here's mine on thelaptop : Alfa Romeo TZ2.
(http://www.classicdriver.com/upload/images/_uk/12616/img03.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Swager on August 28, 2009, 09:17:10 PM
RipChord!  That is the USS Laffey (DD459)!  One tough destroyer!  She went toe-to-toe with a Jap battleship!  She lost but delivered some serious punishment, 1st Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.  Wonderful artwork!  Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Banshee7 on August 28, 2009, 09:27:02 PM
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/banshee7_2007/f-14-tomcat.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: moot on August 29, 2009, 12:09:22 AM
Anyone wanting a nice F-22 pic....
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3471/3866131747_b8547d4d8a_o.jpg)
Hard to do crisper and better lit..  Nearly perfect.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on August 29, 2009, 04:05:59 AM
RipChord!  That is the USS Laffey (DD459)!  One tough destroyer!  She went toe-to-toe with a Jap battleship!  She lost but delivered some serious punishment, 1st Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.  Wonderful artwork!  Thanks for sharing!

Umm.. have you tried Silent Hunter 4?

These are in-game screen shots ..

-cruisin- 22 knots flat out just outta Pearl :)
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/SH4Img2008-12-11_145522_671.jpg)

Jap BB gettin ready to go under .. she took a full load of 6 right into her side at 900 yards and closing from directly abeam, took hours to get away and my sub got beatup a little .. damn fine boat tho :)

-Frank aka GE
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/SH4Img2008-12-10_160057_000.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: RipChord929 on August 29, 2009, 08:19:45 AM
Damn, those visuals look good GE.....  Not much into subs tho...
What I'd really like is a modern PC version of the old game "JUTLAND"...
Or even, "Wooden ships and Iron men"....

AH has MAJOR potential in this area, hoping someday they will release it!!!
Detailed surface actions, would be a blast... What we have in the game now
is just a tiny tease, of what is really possible!!!!

Faith in the future of the game is what keeps me subscribed...
Even tho I hardly ever get online anymore!!!

RC



Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Widewing on August 29, 2009, 09:46:04 AM
(http://home.att.net/~historyworld/Mack-eats.jpg)


My regards,

Widewing
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on August 29, 2009, 12:46:12 PM
Yassir Rip .. the modeling of water, fire, smoke ..and the detail on the ships themselves is at the stage these days where a good surface Navy sim would be like being there. There is such a large scope of possibilities .. they could start with pt boat/tin can action in the Slot in the early days of the 'Canal and work up to historical fights (Leyte Gulf ..oh my) ..then mission editors where you take the New Jersey thru a Jap Task force at night (!!) There's just somethin about tearin stuff up with 16 INCH guns :)

-Frank aka GE (and now and then .. -shakes head- .. man I put a broadside spread into a BB and she will roll and dive without even slowing down .. talk about all hands lost .. them big Pagoda's really are top heavy :)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: noTch on August 30, 2009, 10:53:59 AM

(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m22/notchman777/lunapic-124904893055521.gif)


Does anyone know how to make this with say a FW190 instead of a Typhie?  :huh
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Banshee7 on August 30, 2009, 12:16:02 PM
Yes, I changed again

(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/banshee7_2007/050303-F-1029W-003.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on September 04, 2009, 10:39:57 AM
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/misc/goinVERTICAL-1.jpg)

Today's Desktop .. just a beautiful day at 8500 AGL over Florida Naval Weapons Training Center with Lee, Crazy Horse, and myself.

'Ok give me a 4g pull into the vertical and keep the nose comin up and over .. up and over, keep the 4g Pull going .. '
..yassir .. my first ever loop ..among many other things we did that wonderful day.

Kinda haggard after 3 days without sleep at the AW Con
..I was on pure adrenaline and sooo UP for doing this!

Had flown in the B-25 the day before (damn those things are LOUD)
.. I dont think Lee to this day beleives I only had 18 hrs total in my pilot log book .. including this hour I spent dancin in the clouds :)

-Frank aka GE
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Saxman on September 04, 2009, 10:48:31 AM
Yes, I changed again

(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/banshee7_2007/050303-F-1029W-003.jpg)

Mating habits of the Fighting Falcon?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: ink on September 04, 2009, 12:44:22 PM
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m22/notchman777/lunapic-124904893055521.gif)


Does anyone know how to make this with say a FW190 instead of a Typhie?  :huh


seeings how I made that one I could do it, which 190? and which skin?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Babalonian on September 04, 2009, 05:00:04 PM
Military aircrafts parked on GA aviations ramps is nothing extraordinary. I witness that weekly. Those guys relocate/transit/divert.

Back on the subject, here's mine on thelaptop : Alfa Romeo TZ2.
(http://www.classicdriver.com/upload/images/_uk/12616/img03.jpg)

I didn't mean that was odd, I see F-16s at GA ramps here in the So-Cal area very often.  It's just that they all have some unit markings or another.  My guess is those F-18s were maybe new arivals from the factory, on their way to being deployed on some task force and their new unit, and thus why they're so clean and new looking with no unit markings.  But I hate guessing about things I just don't know.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: boomerlu on September 04, 2009, 05:03:04 PM
I didn't mean that was odd, I see F-16s at GA ramps here in the So-Cal area very often.  It's just that they all have some unit markings or another.  My guess is those F-18s were maybe new arivals from the factory, on their way to being deployed on some task force and their new unit, and thus why they're so clean and new looking with no unit markings.  But I hate guessing about things I just don't know.

Four years ago, I'm sitting in my dorm room eating breakfast, staring out the window.

Suddenly a B2 flies by....

WTF. This was Los Angeles area by the way.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on September 04, 2009, 05:16:49 PM
Military aircrafts parked on GA aviations ramps is nothing extraordinary. I witness that weekly. Those guys relocate/transit/divert.

Um, yeah it kinda is odd, when if they had just taken a different taxiway they would be on a dedicated MILITARY ramp, where I see transiting fighters regularly. Hickam Air Force Base, PacAFCom is connected to the airport the Hornets were at. They share 4 runways. I've seen Hornets, Tomcats, Raptors, P-3s, you name it parked on the ramp at Hickam, but NEVER seen a military aircraft at GA.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Babalonian on September 04, 2009, 06:15:25 PM

seeings how I made that one I could do it, which 190? and which skin?

I'll take a Dora in the III/JG54 skin, but I'm not the original requestor.


Four years ago, I'm sitting in my dorm room eating breakfast, staring out the window.

Suddenly a B2 flies by....

WTF. This was Los Angeles area by the way.

Oh I got some B2 tales to share from growing up around here in LA.

They've flown around in the Santa Monica mountains back in '01 and '02, maybe even '03.  Low-level flight training in rugged mountain environment is my best guess, but these mountains are far from home for them (though they are rugged and steep with many small valleys between them... afghanistanish as one of my friends put it) and the general direction they seem to be flying seems to be en-route to or from either the Point Magu NAFB offshore weapons test range (which makes the most sense to me) or just using the very rugged environment right next to a heavy urban setting (which makes the least sense to me).  I've seen them flying maybe no higher than 5k in the day over the mountains, low but not on the deck (and a few of my friends have too in the middle of the day), but I swear on a bible, back in my more youthful days me and a few friends would meet up at this point in the Santa Monica mountains, and we got buzzed by a B2 twice in the middle of the night on two separate occasions about 5 months apart.  

We had this "spot" that was a great perch on a hill, between two higher hills, and that had an overlook of the San Fernando valley and behind us was a decent sized valley nestled with some much larger mountains behind it.  We frequented this spot about 3-4 times a week as a get-together spot for drinking some beers and smoking a lot of dope or to sneak our girlfriends off to since it was isolated and the way to get to it was a bit hidden (you took a fire road, and then in a spot that dropped off the main fire road (and nobody could tell it was another dirt road unless you knew it was there) was a little dirt road that wound 100-200 yards to our spot ontop of the hill).

Now yes, both times none of us were completely sober but we weren't doing any drugs that would make you mistake what we saw.  The first time it happened it was two cars, with all of us piled in one and hotboxing it.  Me and my mates had finished hotboxing for the second or third time that night, it was around 3am and we had been there since 9 or 10pm.  One of my buddies was playing tongue tackle with his girl in the back seat of my car while me and two other friends were mingling around my trunk, enjoying the view over the valley at night, the air, and some stogies.  First thing you hear is my budy in the car with his girl go "what's that?" loud enough that those of us outside the car heard it, so as those of us outside chuckled (hey, if your budy was in the backseat with a chick and you heard "what's that?", what would your first thought be?) and turned our heads to look and see what was going on in the car, we hear this whine for maybe one second before a big and loud "VOOSH" with something very big just passing us by ontop by maybe 100 feet or less.  It was almost deafening.  As we turned our heads again and back the other way to see what it was I could just make out (it was a dark night with exception to the glow in the skyline from the city's lights) the infamous huge single-wing silhouette of a B2 as it was climbing up out and away from the mountains and away from us, making its way across the SF valley and towards presumably home.  One of my mates instantly asked "what the hell was that".  My responce was "boom, we're dead".  He looked puzzled at me, and I explained we just got buzzed by a B2 and had we been in a war zone, likely dead before we knew what hit us.  I'll be honest though, if I didn't see it myself, I wouldn't of believed a B2 cruising the deck and doing a mock low-level bombing run on our "spot".

About 5-months later I was there again, this time there was three cars, mine was unoccupied, three mates were hanging out and hotboxing and drinking beers in the other, and I was in the bed of my girlfriend's father's truck putting it to good use ;) .  This time I was the guy busy with his girl while noticing a big black B2 silhouette in the mountains and valley behind us sneaking up on us.  I literally only had enough time to say "Babe, remember that time I told you about us almost being bombed up here"...  "VOOSH!"...  this time much lower than the first time (felt like if I was standing ontop of the pickup truck cab I might of been able to touch it).  She screamed then laughed and asked if that was it, and since only one of the guys in the other car was there the first time, the two newbies supposedly (I couldn't hear it myself over the jet's roar) let out a good squeal since they were caught completely off-guard.  This time I was for sure able to identify it as a B2, had some moonlight and I saw it coming and going.  Again, after buzzing us ontop of the hill, it continued it's upward climb off into the night and towards it's home in the desert.

About 6-months after the last time the B2 pilot had some fun with us there was a really bad arson fire season here in SoCal, and so our open fire-road was chained and closed down for security reasons.  Really sucked since we loved our spot and the memories we had there, and of course we never were able to see our B2 pilot friend again, who I'm sure was just as sad at us no longer being there for his runs as we were.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Jayhawk on September 05, 2009, 12:17:53 AM
Great Story Babalonian!  :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on September 05, 2009, 12:33:05 AM
Yes, I changed again

(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/banshee7_2007/050303-F-1029W-003.jpg)
Cat is sexier.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Banshee7 on September 05, 2009, 12:37:07 AM
Mating habits of the Fighting Falcon?

Only when the mood is right


Cat is sexier.

I do agree, and so does my screensaver...a collection of about 20 cat pix
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Enker on September 06, 2009, 02:02:57 PM
Great story Babylon.

Banshee, I think my desktop trumps your mating F-15s, as it IS the saltiest and tastiest meat know to man.

(http://weeklygeekshow.com/img/BakinBaconEatingEtcc.jpg)

But then, I was alerted to this amazing KC concoction called the Bacon Explosion. That looks soo wizard Ani!
http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/ (http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TheAce on September 06, 2009, 07:21:31 PM
Banshee, I think my desktop trumps your mating F-15s, as it IS the saltiest and tastiest meat know to man.

They are F-16's if I'm not mistaken.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: texastc316 on September 06, 2009, 07:30:25 PM
Took my son out to check out the hogs and see about setting up a bow stand. I think hes gonna like the outdoors. Makes his toes curl up.  :D





(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm155/jasonthehunted/AcesHigh/DT2.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Spikes on September 06, 2009, 08:00:54 PM

I do agree, and so does my screensaver...a collection of about 20 cat pix
My wallpaper rotates with about 50 :P
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: BrownBaron on September 06, 2009, 08:39:09 PM
Saxman posted a couple pics of F4U's on the BBS in another thread sooooo....

(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6885/desktop1s.png) (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/desktop1s.png/)


Also 1 of a Few Pics of Me-109 Artwork I found on the Net 1 day.

(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4133/desktop2c.png) (http://img267.imageshack.us/i/desktop2c.png/)

Sorry for the squishiness - 1280x 1024 resolution no come out so good.

TT
OOOohhh....I spy limewire, you salty old pirate you
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: BrownBaron on September 07, 2009, 02:52:50 PM
sorry bout the doulble post

http://www.esnips.com/doc/3caa1d30-62fc-46f2-849c-d251eb5e3a56/Mah-Desktop
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Serenity on September 07, 2009, 03:06:16 PM
Man, I REALLY want to post my laptop background, but I don't know whether it will get skuzzified. (It's less inappropriate than any Wednesday Babe, but with my luck...)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: caldera on September 07, 2009, 04:30:47 PM
Pwnage about to happen...

(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/desk.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: BrownBaron on September 07, 2009, 05:05:37 PM
Pwnage about to happen...

(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/desk.jpg)

oh man...can you imagine 1 well placed egg from a zero?

5 times ace in 1 sortie :P
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TheAce on September 07, 2009, 08:52:56 PM
5 times ace in 1 sortie :P
:rofl
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Bosco123 on September 07, 2009, 08:56:33 PM
Great story Babylon.

Banshee, I think my desktop trumps your mating F-15s, as it IS the saltiest and tastiest meat know to man.

(http://weeklygeekshow.com/img/BakinBaconEatingEtcc.jpg)

But then, I was alerted to this amazing KC concoction called the Bacon Explosion. That looks soo wizard Ani!
http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/ (http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/)
mmmmmm Bacon :)

You stole my Smiley Ace, I want it back. :P
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: ebfd11 on September 09, 2009, 03:29:57 PM
(http://www2.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/56e492e86be2ac35b9580167b0bd0a0b6g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=2iy2dkyyayn&thumb=4)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: druski85 on September 09, 2009, 03:42:23 PM

 :rofl :rofl :rofl

I also like the random Mp3 files on your desktop. 
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: LLogann on September 09, 2009, 04:03:33 PM
They are Falcon's and it's not real.... Photoshopped.  Look at the intakes................. :uhoh

They are F-16's if I'm not mistaken.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Bosco123 on September 09, 2009, 07:19:58 PM
How's this?

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/405468/AH%20Stuff/avp%20chess.jpg)
I like this one so here's what I did

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/AVPwallpaper.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Banshee7 on September 09, 2009, 07:25:46 PM
They are Falcon's and it's not real.... Photoshopped.  Look at the intakes................. :uhoh


I hope you're kidding
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: druski85 on September 10, 2009, 08:23:28 AM
I hope you're kidding

I can't tell if he is or not...but I hope so.  :lol
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: maddafinga on September 10, 2009, 02:35:12 PM
Balrog...

(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad341/maddafinga_photos/balrog.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: LLogann on September 10, 2009, 03:35:18 PM
He's just trying to stir the pot.  Some boob's will look fast and think they are on the same vector................ sssshhhhhhhhhh

I can't tell if he is or not...but I hope so.  :lol
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TheAce on September 10, 2009, 04:30:19 PM
You stole my Smiley Ace, I want it back. :P
Ahhh, May I keep it PUH-LEASE?? It kicks ass!!!
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Banshee7 on September 10, 2009, 09:14:07 PM
He's just trying to stir the pot.  Some boob's will look fast and think they are on the same vector................ sssshhhhhhhhhh


hehe...I had to go back and realize that you were talking about yourself  :lol D'oh!
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Masherbrum on September 10, 2009, 10:31:09 PM
Mine:

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/Desktop-1.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Jayhawk on September 10, 2009, 11:06:19 PM
Is that the Aflac duck in the passenger seat?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: druski85 on September 10, 2009, 11:27:52 PM
Mine:

I was about to say "why did you rotate the picture like that"

Then I saw the tree  :uhoh

Precisely why rally racing is the only kind I respect/enjoy.  Takes skill of a different magnitude. 
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Masherbrum on September 11, 2009, 03:02:41 PM
I was about to say "why did you rotate the picture like that"

Then I saw the tree  :uhoh

Precisely why rally racing is the only kind I respect/enjoy.  Takes skill of a different magnitude.  

Here's another for you  :cool:

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/impreza.jpg)

Screw it, here's a sample of the one's I have saved and rotate as Backgrounds:  :devil

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/subaru_impreza_wrc_2008_06_m.jpg)

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/subaru_impreza_wrc_2001_02_b.jpg)

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/CitroenWRC2.jpg)

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/04_FocusRS-WRC_Jump_Wallpaper.jpg)

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/959.jpg)

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/subaru_impreza_wrc_2001_01_b.jpg)

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/WRC_1280x1024_13.jpg)

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/Aces%20High/Rally_New_Zealand_eWRC_wallpaper_12.jpg)

Enjoy!  Just understand that if I could afford to drive WRC, I would in a heartbeat.  I went to Rally School in 1996 and impressed the Team McNeil School.   To be able to do this for a living would be incredible; the rush, concentration and skillset improvement would be the key for me.




Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Hajo on September 11, 2009, 03:05:28 PM
Hey Jay great pictures of Sushi on wheels!  ;)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Masherbrum on September 11, 2009, 03:06:03 PM
Hey Jay great pictures of Sushi on wheels!  ;)

Added a few more.   All makes are represented now :)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Hajo on September 11, 2009, 03:13:25 PM
Thats better.......the shot of the BMW made my day.  :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Masherbrum on September 11, 2009, 03:17:46 PM
Thats better.......the shot of the BMW made my day.  :aok

No Bimmer.   :frown:  Subaru, Mitsubishi, Citroen, Ford and Peugot.    The Porsche 959 is a rare pic of it (that size) in the Paris-Dakar Rally in 86.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: druski85 on September 11, 2009, 03:56:09 PM
That Norway shot is real pretty, I love the snow rallies.  Also, if you have as much air as that ford, your navigator probably screwed up  :lol.

I used to rock my Camry through the back roads of western NY all the time.   I wish I was kidding.  Nothing like putting that beastly 2.4 into a long power slide hairpin to get the blood flowing.   :rock  I over corrected her into a ditch/tree once, but other than that and a couple rocks in the undercarriage, maintained a pretty good track record.  Unbelievable how smooth the handling was on such a basic sedan.   :aok

I too would without hesitation have joined some local rally leagues had I the funding to get/maintain a real car.  Now that I live in DC, the closest thing I have is my somewhat reckless biking habits through incompetent traffic.   In many ways it is more dangerous than firing a camry down dirt roads at excessive speeds  :rofl
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: TheAce on September 11, 2009, 07:08:05 PM
Is that the Aflac duck in the passenger seat?
:rofl
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on September 12, 2009, 12:51:08 AM
I learned to drive on the dirt roads in Montana ..in the winter, it was steer for the center of the fences, cause there was no road to see after a new snowfall :)

Fun to get a '53 merc sideways an work the drift thru a hairpin.
Nowhere near as fast as a WRX would do it by far .. but it's where I learned to drive a car, not just trundle point A to B.

,.. still take any car I own out to an empty parkin lot an wring it out a bit .. I want to know what they do and how fast they do it and what it takes to make 'em not do it  .. an stuff.

Just like you're sposed to do with an airplane ..you have to know when she gives up ..an stuff.

-GE aka Frank
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Banshee7 on September 13, 2009, 09:38:30 PM
Going back to my roots...

(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/banshee7_2007/055.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: noTch on September 16, 2009, 02:20:30 PM

seeings how I made that one I could do it, which 190? and which skin?
Hey Ink, How is that avatar coming  :pray In case you didn't get my PM, could you do that with
a FW 190D-9 in both JV44 skins(1/JV44 by Edbert & JV44 by TAK)?  Thanks  :x
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: WWhiskey on September 16, 2009, 02:42:15 PM
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/keira-knightley-074.jpg)
 how about keira knightley on a mechanical bull! :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Jayhawk on September 16, 2009, 02:56:36 PM
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/keira-knightley-074.jpg)
 how about keira knightley on a mechanical bull! :aok

how about hell yes!  :aok
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: A.F. Crash, Fire, Rescue on September 17, 2009, 10:09:40 AM
Yeah I know I have a lot of icons but it doesn't affect the performance of my system a bit.
(http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/PSYKOJR/Desktop.jpg)
(http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/PSYKOJR/FindChuckNorris.jpg)
(http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/PSYKOJR/copsdonuts.jpg)
(http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/PSYKOJR/sniper_kitten.jpg)

And one of my favorites, a poster that a friend made and yes that is actually me while I was deployed in Iraq from Jan-May '08, the actual photo was taken at like 0145 and I used the timer on my camera.
(http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/PSYKOJR/IraqAlarmRoom1-1.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Saxman on September 17, 2009, 10:36:21 AM
Yeah I know I have a lot of icons but it doesn't affect the performance of my system a bit.

No, but that Norton Virus (and yes, I left the Anti- off by intent) sure as hell does.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: A.F. Crash, Fire, Rescue on September 17, 2009, 11:33:29 AM
No, but that Norton Virus (and yes, I left the Anti- off by intent) sure as hell does.

Ok, just cause you have heard bad stuff about it or what not doesn't mean it's bad. It works perfectly fine and it does not affect my systems performance so quit being biased against it. That right there is what annoys and irritates me. It places within the top ten of the best ANTI-Virus software available.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Saxman on September 17, 2009, 12:13:10 PM
Ok, just cause you have heard bad stuff about it or what not doesn't mean it's bad. It works perfectly fine and it does not affect my systems performance so quit being biased against it. That right there is what annoys and irritates me. It places within the top ten of the best ANTI-Virus software available.

ROFL. Sensitive much?
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on September 17, 2009, 12:17:43 PM
Ok, just cause you have heard bad stuff about it or what not doesn't mean it's bad. It works perfectly fine and it does not affect my systems performance so quit being biased against it. That right there is what annoys and irritates me. It places within the top ten of the best ANTI-Virus software available.

Placement, placement, placement (on the bottom)  :salute
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Shuffler on September 17, 2009, 12:30:49 PM
Ok, just cause you have heard bad stuff about it or what not doesn't mean it's bad. It works perfectly fine and it does not affect my systems performance so quit being biased against it. That right there is what annoys and irritates me. It places within the top ten of the best ANTI-Virus software available.

It is ok for PC neophites.
It does affect your system performance.
In some cases it is more intrusive than the virus it is supposed to catch.
Even though it has a smaller footprint than in the past it still is a hog compared to others.

Last but not least... use what you want, it is your machine.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Nefarious on September 17, 2009, 01:17:02 PM
Bomb Truck Anyone?

(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/Bombtruck.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Masherbrum on September 17, 2009, 01:46:07 PM
Ok, just cause you have heard bad stuff about it or what not doesn't mean it's bad. It works perfectly fine and it does not affect my systems performance so quit being biased against it. That right there is what annoys and irritates me. It places within the top ten of the best ANTI-Virus software available.

For what you paid for one year of Norton, I paid $30 more for a two-year subscription on ESET Smart Security Suite (including NOD32).   That "price differential" is leaps and bounds more than "worth it".  

Norton does suck, so does AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky and most others.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: DrDea on September 17, 2009, 06:11:12 PM
  I use to swear by Norton.Loved it ever since the dos norton commander but for the past 7 years or so its been substandard IMNSHO.
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Grayeagle on September 18, 2009, 04:15:12 AM
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/misc/RAF-Spitfire-3.jpg)

This is latest .. just a nice crisp image with great background detail ..you can almost feel the bite of the cool air and the buzz of the Merlin :)

-GE
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Viperius on September 18, 2009, 04:22:51 AM
Explosions and Spaceships what more can you ask?  :D
(http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/community/capital_blog_pic1.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: A.F. Crash, Fire, Rescue on September 19, 2009, 09:31:39 AM
And here is my work desktop, I am a fire dispatcher currently in the USAF. Hopefully going back to the fire station soon since my 6 months in the alarm room are over now.
(http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/PSYKOJR/WorkDesktop.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Jayhawk on September 23, 2009, 12:52:22 AM
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/Jayhawk1/desktop.jpg)
Title: Re: So, you think you're desktop wallpaper is good...
Post by: Icefox on September 23, 2009, 03:42:59 AM
I can't seem to get my Print Screen key to work...

I'm using this picture right here. (http://www.airliners.net/photo/Southwest-Airlines/Boeing-737-7H4/1396031/L/)